In the I think second or third Intel piece (the one with Seraph) she talks about something that she found disturbing behind a desk in a hangar. Incidentally I went into the blackout mode and went to turbine and between two desks in Hangar 1 is a note with Seraphs name on it. It seems higher res than usual junk on the ground so it might mean something. Just thought I'd share my findings.

In the 11th cutscene " I slashed the lamb and ewe, letting their black blood stream..." we can clearly see another person sitting next to Savannah on her bed and I think she looks very identical to her. Could that be her Archetype?

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Also refering to "Red Cancer", on Hacienda there is a wall with many notes and pictures refering to current and previous maps and locations. One of them shows a spot on Contraband with some weapon crates (The note on Hacienda tells us about a discovered weapon stache, that fits with Contrabands map description"). The weapons in it are contaminated with pulsating red crystals...That cannot be a coincidence. In the same room I also found a note stating "Nuke Retrieval" in the location "AN" was not yet successfull...that could maybe be icebreaker?

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Edit: On Militia in the underground tunnel connecting the bunker door to one of the houses, there is a Paladin Sniper behind a fence clearly showing the same red crystals. These weapons were supplied by the russians, in particular a man named "Yuri" as some notes on a weapon inventory list indicates. Could Yuri be the owner of Hacienda or a middle man? I'm gonna go check more maps now

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Edit 2: The notes on Hacienda tell of a man with a eye patch...guess which Blackout Character received an eye patch he did not have during the beta? Raul Menendez... wow this shit may be huge. I'm gonna do a seperate thread

I believe all campaign characters are in zombies and vice versa, but it's kinda different. So, Yuri worked on project ascension as seen in both zombies and campaign. However, this follows 2 different storylines/universes. Just like Primis and Ultimis in zombies. It's essentially 2 different versions of the same character due to different events.

the refferenced part of the ODDYSEY is the part when Odysseus seeks knowlege from a dead man and summons him with a ritual of digging a pit and throwing sacrifices in it (idk, maybe Jessica was the lamb) and scares phantoms away till the prophet Tiresias came and gave him the advice he needed

i think it is a representation of this part. but who is the (blind?) prophet of this story?

So Vincent's inside man was in frequency getting info, I went to frequency and I found out that theirs information about all the specialists including (and I'm not joking here), Spectre, an anarchist (maybe), and someone working for Zurich defense force (Bad guys from bo3 campaign I think). I think the name is Rocihha or Rocinna

Actually that thing about Savannah on the bed is interesting. When I saw that, I (and probs everyone else) assumed it was just something figurative, but your theory is interesting. It could confirm that archetypes aren't necessarily resurrections, but clones.

115 is canon in both campaign and zombies, it's just the zombies storyline takes place in a different universe. But yes, it is canon and very likely that this is what created the clones, especially since the ray gun is in blackout too.

Its going to be something to do with a location in Blackout. I really haven't seen anyone post about the activation of Array on Blackout and the message played through all radios across the map after activation.

Check it out. In Blackout, Solo, Duos, Quads.... it doesn't matter. Go upstairs in the main building (Main dish in middle). At the top of the circular staircase (through rolled door). There is a row of terminals just as you get to the top story and one has a green button. Press that, it the makes Array go through some test with the nuke sound and all radios across the map have a message played on them saying this is the end of the test sequence, go to your Intel location area for more info..

That message will play on the radio @ array, lighthouse, and asylum. Haven't figured out what the next step is, but looking for panels and activation stuff all across that map after that.

Well this looks like it wants us to do what people in in black ops 1 with ascension numbers by using the book profiles of courage and deciphering it. In the one intel woods says "courage baby profiles, you got this"

Which leads me to believe they do actually want us to use that book, also here are all the numbers that are available

A large number of the cutscene titles such as “The Blurred and the Breathless Dead”, “Burnt offerings of flesh to the gods...” and “I slashed the lamb and ewe, letting their black blood stream...” are all quotes from a book called Early Greek Thought: Before the Dawn. Haven’t look at it in detail yet but I thought I’d share regardless, might lead somewhere...

Unless im incorrect i believe those saying are also from "The Land of the Dead," THE ODYSSEY byHomer

It also speaks of a pit in this which is interesting since I believe mason in one of the intels says something about there is something underground. Not sure if this helps, this is such a cool and creepy easter egg

Yeah it is, specifically from the Robert Fitzgerald translation (below). All of those quotes are from the same piece which falls under the title of "The Land of the Dead" which makes sense.

"By night
13our ship ran onward toward the Ocean’s bourne,540the realm and region of the Men of Winter,hidden in mist and cloud. Never the flamingeye of Helios lights on those menat morning, when he climbs the sky of starts,nor in descending earthward out of heaven;545ruinous night being rove overthose wretches.We made the land, put ram and ewe ashore,and took our way along the Ocean streamto find the place foretold for us by Circe.There Perimedes and Eulylochus550pinioned (2) the sacred beasts. With my drawn bladeI spaded up the votive (3) pit, and pouredlibations (4) round it to the unnumbered dead:sweet milk and honey, then sweet wine, and lastclear water; and I scattered barley down.555“Then I addressed the blurred and breathless dead,vowing to slaughter my best heifer for thembefore she calved, at home in Ithaca,and burn the choice bits on the altar fire;as for Tiresias, I swore to sacrifice560a black lamb, handsomest of all our flock.Thusto assuagethe nations of the deadI pledged these rites, then slashed the lamb and ewe,letting their black blood stream into the well pit.Now the souls gathered, stirring out of Erebus,(5)565brides and young men, and men grown old in pain,and tender girls whose hearts were new to grief;many were there, too, torn by brazen lanceheads,battle-slain, bearing still their bloody gear.From every side they came and sought the pit570with rustling cries; and I grew sick with fear.But presently I gave command to my officersto flay those sheep the bronze cut down, and makeburnt offerings of flesh to the gods below—to sovereign Death, to pale Persephone.(6)575Meanwhile I crouched with my drawn sword to keepthe surging phantoms from the bloody pittill I should know the presence of Tiresias."

Could you provide me with a link with all the quotes. I will need them to solve all the codes. I have been working on solving a code using " burnt offerings of flesh to the gods" as the key but have had no luck so far. It's all process of elimination though so I will continue to try. Thank you.

Got some potentially interesting info on some specialists. Just an idea, Jessica could be spectre, as spectre and outrider are the only specialists currently unaccounted for in BO4 (I’ve not included reaper as he just seemed to be a war robot) and we know nothing about spectre, name, gender etc. Jessica also has a voice changer. However, with regards to Reaper, I did just noticed that he is Experimental War Robot 115, I can’t imagine treyarch would EVER use the number 115 unless it directly referred to element 115. Was Reaper built using element 115, is that how he became sentient, could be something there and this is also another link for BO to zombies, unless the 115 was already explained somewhere and I missed it.

Black Ops 3 is a sequel to Black Ops 4 - the advanced technology like DNI, Rejack modules, active camo, etc. proves that. In addition, the other specialists should (in theory) be older, and their pasts are deliberately vague in Black Ops 3. For instance, it’s never explained how Battery lost her arm in 3, or Seraph for that matter.

My biggest question is just what in the world is Savannah planning to do with the archetypes? If they're simply someone's sentience inside of a massive program, are they just training AI for war machines or is it something more fantastical

As you can see the Angel Heart code is the only one unsolved at the moment although it has a clear message at the end of it. The team is still working on untangling it but it is probably down to 1.) a typo from Treyarch or 2.) The incorrect Profiles In Courage book. We'll see soon hopefully!

From what I understand, using the cipher key "{hous}ton [s] pr[b]ssed hard on these gro{unds}" instead of "{hou}ston pressed hard on these gro{unds}" ({ } denoting unused characters and [ ] denoting replaced or inserted characters) you get Trillionaire Savannah Mason. So I think it's safe to say since it's an ascension code (which we know often contain typos) instead of using the s in houston, you place an s after houston and replace the first e in pressed with a b and voila, take each number corresponding to the letters, subtract from the numbers in the ascension code, get the new letters -> TRILLIONAIRESAVANNAHMASON

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Now how I got these results:

First I knew the cipher text could not be changed after the h in hard otherwise it would jumble Savannah Mason into illegible goblety goop. Using the original cipher text gives you "umhqlilnairesavannahmason". So I figured if I remove the first s and place any character between the h and a it would give me something different. It gave me "triojvxnojntsavannahmason". But wait a second. If I take the first 3 characters of this "tri" and the last 5 from the last "naire", hmm...looks like its trying to spell out trillionaire, and savannah is a trillionaire. So there needs to be a replacement or insertion after ton in houston, but also before the first s in pressed to keep tri and naire.

Next, I figured, fuck it, just throw "TRILLIONAIRESAVANNAHMASON" into the cipher and it will spit out the text tonsprbssedhardonthesegro or {hous}ton s prbssed hard on these gro{unds}. It confirmed what we already knew in the first step and gave us the modified cipher we would need to correctly translate the message.

BIG DEVELOPMENT!!! This broadcast came through the radios in a game a friend of mine ws in, we have no idea what triggered it and its different to the array transmission, check it out https://youtu.be/2Hxk2VRZfo0

You know there was a map on blops 3 which had 8 characters... All looking different but was in an experimental facility.. Cannot remember the name but it was a dlc map. It was like different genders and looks but shown 8 characters potentially in stasis?! The pictures here could be similar in some way?

Has anyone seen or heard of where David Mason is? He’s the only main Mason that’s currently missing. I also think the Array Dish mentioned is important if there’s one in the Asylum. Also, the note that Seraph mentions says some normal stuff, but the strange parts are (in large red writing) ALIVE and something about approved in 1970.

When I was dying in the “storm” a couple of symbols flashed on the screen, 1 was the biohazard logo, 1 was the logo you see in the loading screen but there was another I didn’t recognise and I thought maybe it’s a hint.

I'm actually not sure Trey will have us using Profiles in Courage again. There seems to be a number of quotes and references that point to the Odyssey. The Land of the Dead, in particular seems of interest. A number of quotes pop up in there from the specialists. It also references the "blind prophet" a number of times. I'm just not convinced they pulled the cypher from the same place this time...

This doesn't mean anything. When mason says courage baby, profiles hes referring to the same method. What you deciphered I got as well but it means nothing. There is obviously a key sentence that we are overlooking. Until we get a solid key phrase it will take a while to decrypt these texts.

I went to the site of the Cutscene where woods and Mason are in Asylum "It was YOU in the box" And what i found was interesting,>! I looked at what woods wrote on the pictures and it was the specialists Ruin, Battery, Torque, and Prophet. Except NON of them look like the actual characters and Torque and Prophet's names are reversed (Torque's Picture says Prophet and Prophet is Torque)!<

Does this mean that THEY are the Archetypes? OR are they the original?

What I also noted is that Bo4 Supposedly takes place in 2069 in the beta but its retconned to 2043 (At Least in multiplayer) But that leads to Bo3 being around 2065, so it cant be 2069.

What's peoples' take on the whole "Dr. Savannah Meyer" thing (the call sign you got for unlocking the Lost Highway intel)?

I haven't looked into every Easter egg and lore tidbit, but my general takeaway was that this is all some strange simulation world featuring "archetypes" modeled after various Black Ops characters. Assuming that, would "Savannah Mason" be the archetype of the real world head of the simulation project, Savannah Meyers, who in reality isn't a Mason?

I have both pdf and hard copy. PDF is erroneous; page numbers aren't correct as well as the words aren't on the correct pages. e.g. Page 1 of the book is page 21 in the PDF, but also page 1 in the book ends with starting the Paragraph "'People don't give a damn,' a syndicated columnist told..." instead of "We remember Daniel Webster for his..."

It's much easier to find the cipher key page using a hard copy, then parse the text of the page and find a message. Without an Ascension or Echelon code and number, it's really just shooting in the dark and parsing every possible 10 letter combination for a message. I'm working on it with my parser. Need to add a dictionary to it to check if words are contained in the translated messages, then output the message to try and make sense of it.

BRAND NEW INFO So I noticed the new intro cutscene had some changes so I picked it apart frame by frame and found some juicy info 💯

The very first image is the new specialist Zero’s login info.

The 2nd image is more lines of code that say “Hijack in progress (system removal time fifteen seconds)” and then each line of code after that begins with “Root@blackout”.

The 3rd image is possibly not important but you never know with Treyarch lol it’s a few specialist names and their coordinating ID numbers, which if you look in image 5 you’ll see circled in orange another box with an ID number that is hard to make out but possibly looks like a 5. Again this could be completely irrelevant but I just thought I would point it out.

The 4th image shows 3 areas next to hijacked that are circled in red.

The 5th image shows the 4th image zoomed in with 3 distinct locations that are marked with a box. I have circled all three of those in blue. It also has a specific spot on hijacked marked, which I have circled in yellow. Circled in purple are coordinates which I have looked up and they lead to Treyarc’s studio in California.

This cannot be nothing. I thought maybe the lines of code at the beginning were just how Zero hacks into things in multiplayer with her icepick, but the fact that it says root@blackout says otherwise. It also says hijack in progress and shows hijacked and areas near that highlighted. That’s no coincidence...

I ran a custom game by myself and didn’t start the countdown so the collapse would never start and I could explore. I dropped in as Zero and went to hijacked and the other marked locations and couldn’t find anything. But I think there is a way for Zero to hack into the boat and hijack hijacked lol

I am so interested in figuring out this Easter Egg so please take this info and run with it! Let’s figure this thing out!

Mason, Woods, Menendez, Resnov, all clones/Archetypes. But it seems that when they do whatever the process is to people, they keep their memories. That's why Reznov is reffered to as the "first" Archetype. They used his numbers to brainwash all future Archetypes to pit them against eachother in blackout. This is why you start to see the numbers when outside the zone in blackout. After Reznov was revived, they brainwashed Woods' Archetype and had him pass it to Mason's archetype. To start the brainwashing, Woods used something simple to switch memories, making mason think that he was the one in the storage container in Angola. Omce that was planted, Woods became Masons "savior" ie, more trustworthy and easier to brainwash. Thats why in the final cutscence when Woods and Mason are in Asylum part of Blackout Mason keeps questioning what happened in Angola, essentially trying to break out of the brainwashing like you do in black ops 1. But Woods keeps reassurring him "it was you in the box, its always been you"

Uhhh, I'm assuming that the whole thing is VR. I mean, listen to how he talks to the person. He keeps saying Mason, but he doesn't sound like he's speaking about Mason's daughter. And he refers to Mason as Mason...

I am unable to solve this in any way that I've tried for the last 30 minutes. Though, I suggest you guys run the numbers through a number cipher, and then maybe through the vigenere, and try and think of a codeword that makes sense. I can't make heads or tales of it.

I noticed while three out of four of them have the names switched around, I have no reason to believe that the picture for battery is incorrect. Perhaps we need to use her name as the keyword for a cypher? Specifically one where things are switched around.

One thing that might possibly add to this is the fact that black ops 3s multiplayer might take place in a simulation the Nuk3town map is clearly a simulation and prophet says "resetting simulation " when he uses his glitch ability not sure if this adds anything but just putting it out there

The last cutscene is in asylum on blackout. If you go to the second floor you find the mirror and 4 pictures on it with operator names under each pic (they are polaroid pictures) the names ruin torque prophet and battery. Doe these names mean anything? In the cutscenes you can hear woods say smells like shit in asylum the mirror is in a bathroom

Sup i'm new to this Easter egg hunt and everything, and im trying to help to. Now i have a feeling that Treyarch isnt done with this mode. they like spoon feeding us information. anyways ill continue my search in blackout for anything out strange, and will report here if i find anything.

I as long been trying to uncover this very hidden interesting EE. Not sure what the numbers mean but the note he left isn't a note. Pictures of battery, prophet, torque, and ruin. It's worth noting that prophet on the pictures is white as in the game prophet is black. The Panama suspect clue says in Spanish.."In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king."

So I just went to Milita into the cabin and I found out that Yuri supplied the Patriots of the North ( The Alaskan rebel group read map Description) to fight... Something, but it's cool how Yuri is apart of more than just zombies

throw trillionairesavannahmason back into program gives text tonsprbssedhardonthesegro or "ton [s] pr[b]ssed hard on these gro"

So using a modified cipher starting on page 103 "ton s prbssed hard on these gro" we get Trillionaire Savannah Mason.

Angel Heart Solved

Going to keep mental note on the s which is the last letter on page 102 is placed after the end of the ton from houston. Don't know if this will be a recurring pattern. Could just be coincidental that an s was needed as well as a b instead of an e

"Its you in the box it's always been you" Is a reference to black ops 2 when Mason saves woods from the shipping container in Angola, for whatever reason woods and Savannah are trying to convince Mason that their roles where reversed, my guess is hes trying to get Mason to join them by making the claim Mason owes him something by pressing the narrative that woods saving Mason in Angola

The country of the blind a book written by Herbert George Wells. Can Núñez be Woods and Savannah be Medina-satore and the villagers be zombies and the rock slide be "the storm". Maybe something more going on with the Panama suspect Intel reference. Hopefully this will help with something.

They may have scrapped a "cinematic" story, but I think they have made it far more interesting. This connects Blackout, Multiplayer, and the story all together. Hell this may connect to the zombies mode too. Treyarch almost always does things like this, just not to this extent before

Not pure desperation, they didnt need to provide a story at all. Instead they continue the story from BO2 and provide some much needed world building. Zombies has been doing this successfully for 10 years now

Why play the game if you're just gonna complain, and if you're not gonna buy the game.. dont complain.. it is canon because it is via treyarch and continue the blops story by filling in a lot of holes and goving you more insight as to what actually happened with woods, mason, amd obviously the numbers.. quit crying

It isn't bad though, LateNight. I can assure you a full campaign would've been nice, but this has Treyarch charm all over it. It seems to have an in-depth tail-chasing lore hunt. They just had Activision up their ass, so what they did was still give us something cool (albeit mixed with really shitty bot matches) and then laid out the groundwork for us to figure out on our own.

It is not bad. It is bad by comparison, which doesn't make something bad on its own. You have to take into consideration that this wasn't even planned in the first place. We could've gotten nothing when they said that there would be no traditional campaign, but instead they gave us something cool that makes us use our noggin a bit.

While I normally heavily respect your opinion, Taras, I can't here. Some of the things you've said in this post alone are incredibly naive to me. Just because there were rumors doesn't make it true because of what you make of it. Just because to you it seems like a patch job "that's just like... your opinion, man".

It's fleshed out and engrained throughout more than just Specialist HQ. The reason it looks like a patch job is because they want us to search for the rest. Their whole pitch for the game was to make a game that can last, just like Siege, Overwatch, Dota. What doesn't last usually longer than 5-8 hours? A campaign. That's why they've spread this out across way more than shitty bot matches and unlockable cutscenes. It'll probably be expanded on in the future with DLC or free content updates, and we haven't even cracked the initial surface of what this seems to offer.

I hope when Infinite comes out and has a feature that you don't see anything good in it but has major potential you can look back on this and reflect and maybe see some optimism in yourself to give it more than the 5 minutes you seemed to give the Specialist HQ story.